LNH20: Kung-Fu Holmes # 2: The Coming of Captain Corrector!

[Tom Russell]

On Sunday, March 24, 2013 6:52:06 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 3/24/2013 2:10 AM, Tom Russell wrote:
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> > Tom Russell presents
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> > KUNG-FU HOLMES # 2
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> > "The Coming of Captain Corrector"
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> > An LNH20 story
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> >     "I come not to correct your many unforgivable lapses in knowledge,
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> > but to seek your assistance against a dire threat to the entire
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> > planet."
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> >     "Well, that's more like it. What is it? An alien invasion? A
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> > criminal mastermind? Robots?"
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> >     "No, it is far, far worse. Something so disturbing that it is
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> > difficult for even I to speak the words."
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> "... Oh, no!  I meant 'for even *me*'!  It's like saying 'for me' 
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> instead of 'for I', and the former is of course correct usage!"

He corrects factual errors, not errors of usage/purpling of prose. :-)
 
> But it was too late for Captain Corrector.  The Corrector Power had left 
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> him.  With nothing else to sustain his body, he crumbled into dust.

While I agree he is probably sustained on correcting others, he does not in this instance crumble. :-D